Paul Haggis

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.

Canadian Director

Gary Wolf

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

American Journalist

Tess Gerritsen

Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.

American Novelist

Nile Rodgers

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

American Musician

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Australian Musician

Irving Stone

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

American Writer

Jesse Eisenberg

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

American Actor

Stacy Schiff

In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.

American Author

Sarah Bradford

When you are absorbed in a biographical subject, you get so close you don't realise the potential effect of what you say. You are trying to get at the truth.

English Author

Jim Dine

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

American Artist

The term highlights a factual recounting of someone's life events.

Historical Account

It can detail personal growth and experiences, depicting human development.

Personal Journey

Understand where the subject's story fits in a wider historical or cultural context.

Context Sensitive

Written by others, it gives an outsider's view on someone's life.

External Perspective

May include fictional elements for dramatization in novels and films.

Creative Angle

It often utilizes interviews, articles, and other secondary materials as sources.

Secondary Sources

 based on historical and biographical evidence. But there is another way to test whether Shakespeare's famous lines were actually written by someone else. Linguistics, the study of language, can tell us a great deal about the way we speak and write

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 because apparently, I'm even worse at making retirement plans than I am at speaking my own mind. Now, all I've done up until this point apart from giving over a spattering of biographical detail is to tell you indirectly that I have three ideas

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 you a feeling of what it's like to lean out from an airplane that has no door probably my favorite landscape photograph because it is biographical as

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